Fat kid squeezed in amusement ride

16 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 142 days ago by timppi

it seems in america to ride these they should have a weight limit instead of height.. unless they have even that.

35 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 142 days ago by plurft

#32, sux2bu,

No- though I assumed Legion would be a religious person's first guess. It's why I wrote it that way. I'm human.

#34, USAnumber1,

Are you equating me with the devil? That's comic. And of course I don't believe in the Bible- it's an ancient political/philosophical document no more illuminating or significant than the Quran, Torah, Popol Vuh, the Vedas, the Kojiki, the Zend Avesta, etc, etc, ad nauseum... Of course, like most religious artifact, it's used in the modern age as a fetish of control and as a tool for simple (though archaic) morals education of the less intelligent, but that's not the issue here.

Can you answer the riddle?

37 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 142 days ago by plurft

#36, USAnumber1,

Tell me, do you know what an avatar is?

And if the only thing you know of religious texts is the Bible, albeit very thinly, doesn't that technically make me smarter than you in that arena?

39 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 141 days ago by plurft

#38, USAnumber2,

An "avatar" is, in mythology, a lesser or human incarnation of a god. In Christian mythology, Jesus is an avatar of Jehovah. However, in terms of the internet- your user name is your avatar. You are NOT USAnumber1 outside of this forum any more than I am Plurft. However, ONLY you are USAnumber1 here, whereas Plurft is not only me. Does that help you with why I seem to have mixed personality? I'll probably get banned for that, but, O well.

>"But Christianity is faith-based..."

So is every other religion on Earth. Keep in mind also that there are millions who have faith that UFO's are real. There are millions who have faith that vaccines cause autism.

>"...millions of 'smart' people in the world still believe in Christ."

"Smart" and belief in Christianity are not tacitly linked. Furthermore, "smart" is not the same as "educated", and intelligence in one arena of thought does not translate to other arenas. For example, there may be a brilliant mathematician who believes in Christianity, but that doesn't mean he knows anything about how culture or folklore works.

See, you might have "faith" and it's obvious you might be an authority on it, but that only means you're an authority on how to devote your life to a cause you need no information or education about. Though it's obvious that you've been taught Biblical talking points for a range of subjects, you lack the informed reader's grasp of the subtleties of the culture that goes with that text and knowledge of the vast majority of the text that isn't so popular. You seem to think that Christianity is a unique religion where it isn't- it is similar to every religion on Earth and the themes and teachings within the Bible are broadly generic. There is simply no evidence that it is true- if it were, and was so convincing, there would be a lot more Christians in the world. You'd just as well have total faith in Grimm's fairy tales being real.

But, you see, what's strange is your blatant pomposity- you have faith but that appears to be all you have going for you. Despite that, you are arrogant enough to demand your belief system be etched onto the world and arrogant enough to act as if all who don't follow your belief system are below you. It's obvious from your bigoted condemnation of Muslims; it's obvious from your choice of username. However, the simple fact that you can retain some level of anonymousity here and then act in this manner shows how weakly you regard your own faith. What happened to the "living like Christ" claims? How do you think he would feel about your crassness or about a username that smacks of nationalistic idolatry?

And remember this, always, "faith" is not an education; "faith" is not intelligence; "faith" is not truth; "faith" is not evidence; and, overwhelmingly so, "faith" does not make you "right". Faith is only belief in that which has no evidence.

41 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 141 days ago by plurft

#40, bountyhunter53,

It's left over from an earlier thread about a video concerning religion where a mod, being a pansy, decided that he/she didn't want to see it and locked the thread out of spite. It was one of those "I'm a discussion Nazi!" things which is hilarious because there are absolutely no terms of service here, no posting guidelines, no posted "rules" of conduct. Really it boils down to some random mod got offended and couldn't take it so used an arbitrary "this is off topic and people insult each other" complaint to shut down the thread... as if every thread here remains on topic. Of course, arbitrary heavy handedness like that will more than likely keep the number of consistently logged in users pretty low, but hey who wants to discuss in a forum in the way they want. It's better to be censored, yeah?

43 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 141 days ago by plurft

#42, sure lacroupade, here ya go:

http://www.snotr.com/video/2830